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The fifth of the Ten Commandments reads: \u201cHonor (<\/span>kabed<\/span><\/i>) your father and mother,<\/span> that you may long endure on the land that the Lord your God is giving to you (Exodus 20:12).\u201d<\/span> Noting that we are commanded to \u201chonor\u201d both our parents and God,<\/span> the Talmud concludes that Scripture equates the honor due parents with the honor due to God (BT Kiddushin 30b). And yet the parameters of the obligation are not obvious: What is required by the commandment, and even: to whom is it addressed?<\/span><\/p>\n

Patrick Miller writes: \u201cThe commandment was not primarily directed to children, to tell them how to treat their parents, but to adults; this means that this commandment has in mind especially how mature adults are to treat their older or elderly parents.\u201d Caring for the frail and infirm can be exhausting and enervating, and the Torah worries about the all-too-human temptation to abandon them. The fifth commandment thus \u201cfocuses on the mature person, no longer under the control of parents and now probably stronger than they are in every way\u201d (<\/span>Deuteronomy, <\/span><\/i>1990, p. 84).<\/span><\/p>\n

Walter Brueggemann writes that \u201cthe fifth commandment reflects parents who have by aging lost their productive capacity and therefore their social utility… it comes close to the Sabbath command that affirms that life does not consist in productivity. Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Taken together, then, the obligations to observe Shabbat and honor parents make a powerful\u2014and in our own time, urgently important\u2014point: Our worth as human beings does not derive from our jobs or from how much we produce, but from the simple fact that we are created in the image of God. <\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":76545,"id":76545,"title":"hos12-parents children","filename":"hos12-parents-children.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos12-parents-children.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-names-of-the-parents-are-a-portent-for-their-children\/hos12-parents-children\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"hos12-parents-children","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":76544,"date":"2020-06-28 10:14:49","modified":"2022-05-11 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